SYDNEY'S CATHEDKALS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 54, 12 September 1928, Page 10

SYDNEY'S CATHEDKALS

ST. ANDREW'S AND ST. MARY'S (From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 6th Septomber. Now that St. Mary's Cathedral has been enlarged, St. Andrew's Cathedral looks more than ever like a poor relation in contrast with it. Luckily for St. Andrew's, it is not contiguous to St. Mary's, for the contrast would then be even more striking. It was generally believed that the last had been heard of the removal of St. Andrew's to Macquarie street when the Lang Government went out of power, but a letter in the Press on the subject by the Primate (Archbishop Wright) suggests strongly that the matter has not been allowed to drop even if there is a section of Anglican Church folk bitterly opposed to any shift. If St. Andrew's is to be re-built on lines more befitting tho Anglican Church, then it will unquestionably have to surrender the present site, despite the attutude of tho "die-hards," who regard tho removal of tho cathedral as an unpardonable sin. St. Andrew's was built at a time when there could have been no very large congregation, since the site of it was then about a-third of a mile from tho nearest house, and about half-way between Sydney, as it was then, and Brickfield Hill, now occupied by one of Australia's biggest emporiums. Cheek by jowl with the cathedral in the early days was an old burial ground in which pigs made merry rooting up tho graves.